In a nutshell: payment for ideas can defeat the purpose. Continue reading
Month: March 2012
A truly Heroic Transformation of Consciousness
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves comes when life seems most challenging; we must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. Continue reading
Jeremy Rifkin on “the empathic civilization”
Power to Select the Lens Through Which We See Reality
Among all the things we don’t control, we do have some control over our stories. We do have a conscious say in selecting the narrative we will use to make sense of the world. Continue reading
There are too many serious people trying to get everybody else to be too darned serious
Of course, you can’t unfry an egg, but there is no law against thinking about it. Continue reading
You have your thought and I have mine
Your thought is a tree rooted deep in the soil of tradition and whose branches grow in the power of continuity. My thought is a cloud moving in the space. It turns into drops which, as they fall, form a brook that sings its way into the sea. Then it rises as vapour into the sky. Your thought is a fortress that neither gale nor the lightning can shake. My thought is a tender leaf that sways in every direction and finds pleasure in its swaying. Your thought is an ancient dogma that cannot change you nor can you change it. My thought is new, and it tests me and I test it morn and eve.
You have your thought and I have mine. Continue reading
Certainty and Doubt
| “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.” | |
 Bertrand Russell |
The Art of Trying by Paulo Coehlo
Keep Open and Aware Directly to the Urges that Motivate you
“There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. Continue reading
Dealing with anger positively
Ironically, if it hadn’t been for racism and prejudice, we may not have had a Gandhi. I wouldn’t be here standing and talking to you about my grandfather. He may have been just another successful lawyer who had made a lot of money. Continue reading
